Cloudical offer for migration from canceled SUSE OpenStack Cloud to a new vendor
Migrate from SUSE OpenStack to Vanilla or Distribution with ease!
OpenStack is the leading infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution to realize open-source based private or public cloud solution.
On October 9th 2019 SUSE canceled to SUSE OpenStack Cloud development. Current users have the choice to stay on SUSE OpenStack Cloud until end of support or migrate directly to an alternative platform.
With our OpenStack Experts, we ensure your success on the migration from SUSE OpenStack Cloud to Vanilla or Distribution OpenStack.
Key Benefits for your business
- Analyses of your current SUSE OpenStack Cloud
- Elaborate the ideal migration strategy to another OpenStack platform
- Design and Build of a new OpenStack platform incl. workload migration
OpenStack Platform Alternatives
- RedHat OpenStack Platform
- Vanilla OpenStack
- Canonical OpenStack
- Mirantis Cloud Platform
Cloudical Deliverables
- Analyses of your current SUSE OpenStack Cloud
- Elaborate the ideal migration strategy to another OpenStack platform
- Selection of the ideal OpenStack platform (Vanilla or Distribution) together with the customer
- Design and Architecture of the new OpenStack Cloud platform
- Initial set up of the new OpenStack Cloud platform
- Planning and execution of workload migrations together with the customer
- Enablement of the operations team
Customer Contribution
- Identify and assign stakeholders
- Delivering server and storage hardware
- Delivering network components
- Delivering remote access
- Delivering subscriptions, if required
Key activities
- Initial kick-off for stakeholders, developers and operations teams
- Analyses of your current SUSE OpenStack Cloud
- Creation of design and architecture documents of the new OpenStack Cloud platform
- Initial set up of the new OpenStack Cloud platform according to best practices
- Migration of the cloud workload to the new platform
Optional
- Additional expert hours for Q/A, training, automation
- Delivering subscriptions, if required
- Managed services for OpenStack
- Extensive Operations including Logging, Lifecycle Management, Resource Management, Security Handling
- Monitoring and Alerting of the RedHat OpenStack Platform
- Logging solution on platform level
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd level support via Cloudical Service Desk
- Central support channel for the customer
OR
Jump with us ahead and start/complete your container journey with our Managed Kubernetes, Managed SUSE CaasP, Managed SUSE CAP and Managed RedHat OpenShift
Learn more about the Managed Migration here.
Times are changing rapidly – from On Premises to the Cloud! We face the challenge of transforming existing legacies into hybrid cloud stacks or multi-cloud environments. New integration models are needed.
The 2019 Cloud Technology & Services Conference intends to stimulate an exchange with experts and like-minded people on how to integrate containers and microservices.
Insights can be found in talks, live demos and technology outlooks at the conference. Market-relevant solution providers advise the visitors in the exhibition and answer questions in a personal conversation.
Cloudical, as part of the Cloud Native Loft, will discuss how to view and accept cloud as a holistic challenge with the talk “From zero to cloud in five minutes”.
We will introduce consultancy, workshops, experts, enablement and knowledge and point out approaches for structured and sustainable access.
Berlin based cloud technology and consulting company Cloudical Deutschland GmbH is now Oracle Silver Partner. Both partners are currently developing the details of the partnership, discuss joint customer approaches and set up technical consultancy and workshop offerings. With this partnership Cloudical is expanding its comprehensive offering of workshops, consultancy and expertise to the Oracle ecosystem.
Cloudical CTO Kim-Norman Sahm:
“Cloudical now expands its comprehensive offering of workshops, consultancy and expertise to the Oracle ecosystem. Cloudical is proud to be official partner and together with Oracle we will develop a strategy to bring our common strengths in cloudification, technology, consulting, mindset and strategy to our customers. As a cloud-native consultancy, Cloudical is happy to strengthen its relations with Oracle, one of the major thriving forces in cloud-technology.”
To fill the job as a new editor I gave myself the first task to interview our Editor in Chief, Friederike Zelke, about the new position.
How come the Cloud Report needs additional staff?
The Cloud Report is a hybrid journal, so, the website (the-report.cloud) is an important part of the journal. And to bring more genuine content, more interviews, more relevant news, more technique and more coverage in general into higher expansion we decided to hire an online editor.
What kind of adventures can we expect?
There are so many conferences, events, cool new companies and inventive old companies which go new ways! And we want to cover the whole “cloud” world with the different, vivid communities and the whole technique approach. This is what we expect, and you could expect the same.
What makes the new online editor suitable for this job?
She already worked for Cloudical, the publisher of The Cloud Report, so she knows about “cloud”, mindsets, processes, … and has experiences from international publishing houses. She brings in her contacts, communication skills, and writing experiences. So, I´m happy to have Emelie on board in our publishing department!
If I would like to publish something for the Cloud Report without being a part of the editorial staff, how do I proceed?
Just get in touch with us! Via phone or email, we are more than happy to connect with you! (presse@cloudical.io)
Today’s DevOps teams must deploy software solutions faster than ever before and manage them more effectively. Time-to-Market and security are key-factors for DevOps-teams and orgnanizations. There are am lot of solutions available, a lot of knowledge and ideas exist inside DevOps-teams – but without the right adoption framework, things can quickly spiral out of control and cause a lot of risks and efforts!
As developers look to use the latest, greatest, and coolest tools – the Ops must keep things under control and streamline the complexity. Considering the boom of Kubernetes adoption, we have to realize that this also brings news challenges when it comes to wrangling cloud-native environments. For example, many large companies already struggle with ‘shadow IT’ in which corporate credit cards are used to spin up resources on the cloud. We can not even imagine how much money is being spent on container experiments on – for example – AWS where according to the Cloud Native Computing Federation – 51% of Kubernetes workloads are running.
This is why we at Cloudical understand a combination of a “Managed” Kubernetes service from a major hyper-scale cloud provider coupled with a platform like Cloud Foundry which has found great success amongst enterprise developers for its ability to implement ‘guard rails’ to be a great combination.
Below we’ll look at a solution we’re recommending to our customers to reduce the risk and the stress of innovating by combining SUSE’s Cloud Application Platform solution (CAP), which is a certified CloudFoundry distribution, with Amazon’s managed Kubernetes service, EKS.
An amazing and unique SUSE + AWS Solution
At Kubecon Barcelona we got to catch up with both the AWS and SUSE teams and share our experience with the new solution they launched at SUSECON. To us, the SUSE Cloud Application Platform on AWS provides companies looking to innovate faster with a platform to standardize, accelerate, and simplify containerized application delivery. The new solution is a templatized deployment which can be quickly spun up on Amazon’s managed EKS offering.
The “Quick Start” is an automated deployment / infrastructure-as-code template tailored for AWS with the purpose of helping customers quickly see the value of SUSE’s unique Cloud Foundry platform.
For many existing Cloud Foundry users, the increasing availability of high value, container-based infrastructure, like Kubernetes, is an exciting development. However while Cloud Foundry has increasingly focused on managing application deployment with containers – the platform itself is known to be a resource intensive VM deployment that is complex to manage and hard to set up. For companies with cloud-native expertise like Cloudical, this management can be transparent to end-customers but the overhead is still there. This is what makes running SUSE’s Cloud Application Platform on Amazon EKS unique: Management efforts and technical overhead are minimized in a significant fashion.
Quick Start Architecture
The Amazon EKS Architecture Quick Start is a foundation to provide a fully managed, highly available, and certified Kubernetes-conformant control plane for SUSE Cloud Application Platform. We learned that AWS and SUSE worked closely on this implementation and were among the first ISVs to hammer away at the Amazon EKS Quick Start itself. You’ll notice the solution is spread across Availability Zones for resiliency, making it a production grade starting point.
With the Quick Start solution it’s also incredibly easy for Cloudical to demonstrate the value of an application modernization project or cloud-native application deployment, because the entire platform can be spun up in the time it takes for us to go grab a quick lunch! As you’ll see from the screenshots below, the Quick Start provides a wizard experience to guide you through set-up, making it even easier to get started.
What’s important is that the solution itself is completely customizable with the project available on Github and you’ll also see in Step 1 that you can use a custom CloudFormation template to account for unique requirements. We’ve also run into many questions while running through the simplified experience (because there’s definitely complexity behind it) so it’s helpful that it’s also accompanied by an entire Deployment Guide with detailed steps and information on the variables and their impact. The SUSE team reassures us that the deployment document is maintained by a joint team from we’ve been told that updates will be timely especially with major versions.
Deployment Screenshots:
Our customers are already benefitting from the platform’s ability to deploy containerized applications to EKS – and from Cloudicals side we are able to spend much more time with the customer on areas of innovation rather than platform management and operations thanks to the Amazon EKS service’s level of abstraction, ingrained security, on-demand upgrades and patching.
Cloudicals CTO and Head of Cloud Technology, Kim-Norman Sahm, emphasizes the advantages of this approach: “To us, SUSE Cloud Application Platform on EKS is an amazing way of leveraging the power of a sophisticated CloudFoundry distribution with the opportunities a public cloud environment such as AWS. Combining this with the technological excellence of SUSE and our cloud-technology expertise and consultancy approaches, makes for an awesome combination. Customers and teams can get started faster with a CloudFoundry-distribution, utilize all the advantages of AWS with EKS and can focus on delivering the best cloud solutions possible, while avoiding many of the common pitfalls of do-it-yourself approaches.”
Want to learn more? Get in touch with us here: https://test.cloudical.io.
More info: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/suse-cloud-application-platform/
We are a company centered around cloud technology, digitization, agile work, processes and knowledge sharing. Our founders, Michael Dombek and Karsten Samaschke, set up a company helping customers and partners to go into cloud environments the best way, with the right technique, with proper processes and with the best mindset. Cloud is more than technique but based on it. So, we know about cloud technology in public, private and hybrid environments and about the tools which complete the change from technique into cloud. And we share our knowledge, we offer implementation, trainings, coaching, security- and technology consulting. We understand cloud and technology to be part of a bigger ecosystem, which needs to be understood and transformed into the new era of computing and collaboration across all parts of enterprises and their respective environments.
This is what we stand for!
We were founded in September 2017. Since then the company has grown steadily, found employees in April 2018 in Faridabad near New Delhi and over the year also numerous employees in Germany, so that an office was established in Darmstadt in November 2018. At the turn of the year, a development company (applicity GmbH) was taken over as a subsidiary and transformed into Cloudical Engineering. Since May 2019 we also have a subsidiary in Wroclaw.
Our range of content has grown over time and we have become aware of our concrete abilities and strengths – the experiences we have gained in the first two years, feedback from customers and partners as well as our own inner view, success stories and mistakes, changes in perception have increased our growth. We have the ability to do cloud! But we are more, we are technical, critical, logical, ethical, practical, dynamical, analytical, methodical, economical, and ecological.
That´s why we choose our new name.
So we are CLOUDICAL.
Berlin, June 5. 2019
At the SUSE Partner Summit DACH 2019, Cloudical received the Best New Partner 2019 Award. In addition to the solution partnership for SUSE’s cloud offerings, the overall Cloudical offering, which goes very well with SUSE products, was honored with this award.
Karsten Samaschke, CEO and Co-Founder of Cloudical, said: „We are very honored to receive this award and take it as an incentive to intensify our efforts around CloudNative technologies in general and SUSE products in particular.
Together with SUSE, we can create real value for our customers in the cloud technology, process, approach and approach environment, and together we can manage the disruptive changes in the cloud and digitization context.”